four-color

American  

[fawr-kuhl-er, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌkʌl ər, ˈfoʊr- /

adjective

Printing.

1. noting or pertaining to a process for reproducing colored illustrations in a close approximation to their original hues by photographing the artwork successively through magenta, cyan, and yellow color-absorbing filters to produce four plates that are printed successively with yellow, red, blue, and black inks.

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Example Sentences

Come Tees was — and is — rooted in DIY process and ethics, though it’s grown too big for Sombreuil to do everything herself anymore with a 500-watt bulb on her four-color tabletop press.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2022

He had to carry four-color pens, usually four at a time, that he would give out to anyone he met, even though the inscription identified the recipient as a thief.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2022

Stan Lee, the mastermind of comics who plotted countless splats, yeeows and kabooms, created a four-color universe of crime fighters in tights that looked like New York, because it was.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2018

In the language of graph theory, the four-color theorem says that the vertices of every planar graph can be colored using four colors so that no two adjacent vertices are the same color.

From Scientific American • Apr. 28, 2018

The Legion of Doom, a conspiracy of costumed super-villains headed by the chrome-domed criminal ultra-mastermind Lex Luthor, gave Superman a lot of four-color graphic trouble for a number of decades.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce